Magic Squares: Superstitions, Mystery and the Plague
A magic square is a combination of numbers arranged in a square such that the sum of each row, column and both the corner diagonals is...
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Arushee Jha
- Mar 22, 2022
Lottery Confusion: The Pigeonhole Principle
Example 1. Annemarie is cutting out coupons for her favorite restaurant, Adelinas Ballhaus, from the newspaper. Coupon denominations are...
Arushee Jha
- Jan 25, 2022
The Birthday Paradox: Cryptographic Attacks, Counterintuition and More
In a set of n people what is the probability that two share a birthday? Funnily enough, we need only 23 people to have a 50% chance of...
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